No More Lifestyle of Debt
A pipe-fitter has traded in his $65,000 job and is selling his house to live in a $6,000 renovated red school bus.
Jeffrey Pryor, 42, from St Louis in Missouri, said he had a ‘lifestyle of debt’ and wanted to ‘take back ownership of his life’.
In a radical change of direction, he bought a school bus and spent 500 hours transforming it into a living space and workshop.
He started by tearing out the seats, before installing flooring, insulation, a bath, bed, cooker, toilet, lighting, storage areas, and a welder.
He named his red bus ‘Le Diable Rouge’, French for ‘the Red Devil’.
His friends initially thought he was crazy but were impressed by his creativity and how roomy the bus was
He intends to live on wheels while studying for a joint undergraduate and master’s degree in history. He is selling his $155,000 house.
His friends initially thought he was crazy but were impressed by his creativity and the amount of space inside the bus, he said.
‘People look inside and think it’s the best thing they have ever seen. They are really inspired by it’, he explained.
‘The outside is really subtle, it just looks like a school bus, but inside it’s incredible.
‘I stripped out the seats, repaired the rust and upgraded some mechanical bits, then it was like building any other home.
‘I used spray foam insulation, built walls and a roof, which was difficult as the roof is curved but it was worth it.
‘I’ve installed a Pipe Acrylic Sipper tub that weighs 75lbs, converted a home tankless water heater, a composting toilet, made a bed of school bus chairs and a flip-top table, put in LED undershelf lighting, a wine rack, wine boxes for dresser drawers and reclaimed wood from wine boxes for decoration.
‘I’ve made a power cord in case I need to use my welder, so that if I need to I can do work on the bus. It’s fair to say I’ve done a lot of work to it.’
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